README.md

Getting started with this Chef repo

If you already have Ruby installed (OS X does) just run gem install chef to get our latest release. You can use Hosted Chef as the server side since you
don't need more than the 5 free nodes. After signing up with Hosted Chef you will need to download both your own key and the organization validator key, and download a knife.rb config file. Install
all of these to ~/.chef folder. Upload the cookbooks with knife cookbook upload -a and the roles with for f in roles/*.rb; do knife role from file `basename $f`; done.

Configuring cloud credentials

The Chef wiki shows a general overview but to get EC2 working quickly just gem install knife-ec2 and add the following to your knife.rb: